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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Support the ability to have multiple instances running at the same time","articleBody":"Hi.\n\nMy organization is currently slowing migrating from a hosted Github Enterprise Server instance to Github Enterprise Cloud. When I try to use VS Code's Agent support, I can configure two distinct tools with different names and different configurations. Something like this:\n\n\n```json\n{ \n  \"chat.agent.enabled\": true,\n  \"mcp\": {\n    \"inputs\": [\n      {\n        \"type\": \"promptString\",\n        \"id\": \"ghec_token\",\n        \"description\": \"GitHub Enterprise Cloud Personal Access Token\",\n        \"password\": true\n      },\n      {\n        \"type\": \"promptString\",\n        \"id\": \"ghes_token\",\n        \"description\": \"GitHub Enterprise Server Personal Access Token\",\n        \"password\": true\n      }\n    ],\n    \"servers\": {\n      \"GHEC\": {\n        \"command\": \"github-mcp-server\",\n        \"args\": [\n            \"stdio\"\n        ],\n        \"env\": {\n            \"GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN\": \"${input:ghec_token}\"\n        }\n      },      \n      \"GHES\": {\n        \"command\": \"github-mcp-server\",\n        \"args\": [\n            \"stdio\"\n        ],\n        \"env\": {\n            \"GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN\": \"${input:ghes_token}\",\n            \"GH_HOST\": \"https://someotherdomain.com\"\n        }\n      }           \n    }       \n  }\n}\n```\n\nThe problem is that the Agent is confused and seems to pin itself to only the set of tools exposed by one of the servers, hence I cannot navigate between the repos hosted on both Github instances. I can't seem to \"prompt\" engineer my way out of this.\n\nThe Github MCP server docs show how to overwrite individual tool descriptions. I haven't tried, but I guess I could override the tool descriptions for both servers, explicitly call out one set is for GHEC, one for GHES, and see if I can then adjust the prompt to force it to use one set of tools, so one server, or the other. But I'm hoping there's a better way to do this.\n\nThis may be more of a VS Code issue, but maybe there's something in how the server is actually implemented that could help facilitate this use case.\n\nThank you!","author":{"url":"https://github.com/ylazzari","@type":"Person","name":"ylazzari"},"datePublished":"2025-04-09T17:35:09.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":11},"url":"https://github.com/206/github-mcp-server/issues/206"}